Definition of "desolates" []

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of desolate. (verb)

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• "Proclaiming a National Fast Day in 1863, he suggested, in full prophetic voice, that the awful calamity of civil war, which now desolates the land, may be but a punishment, inflicted upon us, for our presumptuous sins, to the needful end of our national reformation as a whole People. . ."
• "He detonates distracted droves like dynamite, desolates communities with doublespeak."
• "To secure this, we must stop the war that now desolates our once happy and favored country."